1884.123.317

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

White patinated stone flake. Cortex present on 20% of surfaces. Orange staining. [JW [Excav. PR] 26/04/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England East Sussex Brighton Hollingbury Hollingbury Castle Camp Hillfort

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Mesolithic, uncertain Archaeological period: Neolithic, uncertain

Date collected

1868 June 10

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 16 mm, Width: max 42 mm, Length: max 71 mm, Weight 45 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.123.317 Other numbers: 1416 PR Cat other PR nos: 3234

Research and responses

See 1884.123.307. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Pitt-Rivers described Hollingbury in his 1869 paper on Sussex Hillforts as follows: "HOLLINGBURY.—Mr. Horsfield considers Hollingbury to be Roman on account of its being square. Mr. Turner, on the other hand, attributes it to the Druids on account of its being " decidedly circular." From personal inspection I should pronounce it to be of an irregular square form, the corners being rounded, and the sides bulging. Such a configuration appears to have been the best adapted to the faces of the hill on which it stands. There are the remains of a bank 40 Examination of the leading from the south-west corner of this work in the direction of Brighton. A block of Druid sandstone stands at the side of one of the gateways to the west, and another is on the parapet on the south side. [Note: Since writing the above, my attention has been drawn by Mr. Boyd Dawkins to the evidence of an extensive flint manufacture which exists in the neighbourhood of Hollingbury, and which leaves little doubt on my mind that this work, like the others, was of British origin." (Lane Fox 1869: 39-40). [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

Associated publications

Lane Fox, A.H. 1869. An examination into the character and probable origin of the Hill Forts of Sussex. Archaeologia 42: 27-52. [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

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